Progress on #782

[cscobra]

Sorry, ERA Chas, but the laws of physics say otherwise. The longer the cable, the greater the electrical resistance--which produces heat and reduces efficiency (e.g., a decrease in current). You can compensate a bit by using a bigger, thicker cable, but that results in increased weight and higher cost for the cable.

Everything's a trade-off. What may be an advantage for one person may prove to be a disadvantage for another.

[ERA Chas]

Originally Posted by cscobra

Sorry, ERA Chas, but the laws of physics say otherwise. The longer the cable, the greater the electrical resistance--which produces heat and reduces efficiency (e.g., a decrease in current). You can compensate a bit by using a bigger, thicker cable, but that results in increased weight and higher cost for the cable.

Everything's a trade-off. What may be an advantage for one person may prove to be a disadvantage for another.

Thank you for your physic (pun intended) lesson.
Weight of cable and cost?? Reduced efficiency-you mean like running a full-time electric fuel pump, three fans and an MSD?
Electrical resistance and heat produced have zero effect on ET's or lap times. Or street driving in ambient heat. Ask how I know professor.
Dan spent more on dash knobs and wiper bottles and added hundreds of pounds of weight to this car. He does not care about any of that-only the evidence that a same-make car, built with trunk mount 27 years ago, continues to operate flawlessly today. He would like all his hard build work pay-off like that too.
Patrick will now be highly upset that there is a Greater Authority on all things pertaining to physics and ERAs than he....

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by ERA Chas

Patrick will now be highly upset that there is a Greater Authority on all things pertaining to physics and ERAs than he....

Not so! I have the greatest respect for cscobra. He is not only educated, but communicates well to boot. He seems affable and clearly has hands-on experience, not only with his ERA, but with Ohm's Law as well. You seem just a little over-sensitive on this. Maybe it stems from your mama locking you in the basement, in the pitch dark, for long periods of time as a child for punishment? Surely that left a scar. Maybe you'd feel better if you just talked it all out on this forum instead of lashing out at poor cscobra....

[ERA Chas]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Not so! I have the greatest respect for cscobra. He is not only educated, but communicates well to boot. He seems affable and clearly has hands-on experience, not only with his ERA, but with Ohm's Law as well. You seem just a little over-sensitive on this. Maybe it stems from your mama locking you in the basement, in the pitch dark, for long periods of time as a child for punishment? Surely that left a scar. Maybe you'd feel better if you just talked it all out on this forum instead of lashing out at poor cscobra....

Superb inciting in your usual style, Village Idiot. Do you and he have the same manicurist?
And Ma only locked me in the basement when I got home from Reform School...

[DanEC]

A couple tweaks:

Replaced the S&H filters with K&N filters. I doubt they will make much difference but they are about 1/4 inch taller so that works out about 6.4 square inches more filter surface area each. Woo woo! My rear acorn nut was clearing by about 3/8 inch initially but I realized today that the nut was bottoming out on the stud. I picked up another 1/8 inch of so by readjusting so clearances are good.

Also ordered a pair of vacuum secondary covers set up for linked vacuum.



The next item ERA Chas will approve of. Fabricated an accelerator return spring bracket out of aluminum channel and got a couple new springs from Summit. Looks much better now.